privatus
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”).
Participle
prīvātus (feminine prīvāta, neuter prīvātum, adverb prīvātim); first/second-declension participle
- bereaved, deprived, robbed or stripped of something, having been deprived of something
- freed, released, set apart, delivered from something, having been released from
- (by extension) apart from the state; unofficial; peculiar, special, personal, individual, private
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | prīvātus | prīvāta | prīvātum | prīvātī | prīvātae | prīvāta | |
| Genitive | prīvātī | prīvātae | prīvātī | prīvātōrum | prīvātārum | prīvātōrum | |
| Dative | prīvātō | prīvātō | prīvātīs | ||||
| Accusative | prīvātum | prīvātam | prīvātum | prīvātōs | prīvātās | prīvāta | |
| Ablative | prīvātō | prīvātā | prīvātō | prīvātīs | |||
| Vocative | prīvāte | prīvāta | prīvātum | prīvātī | prīvātae | prīvāta | |
Descendants
Etymology 2
From prīvātus, perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”).
Noun
prīvātus m (genitive prīvātī); second declension
- A man holding no political office or associated with the cursus honorum.
- A man in a private life, citizen, member of the public.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prīvātus | prīvātī |
| Genitive | prīvātī | prīvātōrum |
| Dative | prīvātō | prīvātīs |
| Accusative | prīvātum | prīvātōs |
| Ablative | prīvātō | prīvātīs |
| Vocative | prīvāte | prīvātī |
References
- “privatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “privatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- privatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- privatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- private life: vita privata (Senect. 7. 22)
- a civil case: causa privata
- private life: vita privata (Senect. 7. 22)